Sorry to hear DD, I was hoping to see some mass. [&:]

TC I want to make sure it is clear to all that we knew going in that we were subject to come home with no trophy ...and we also knew that we would not see near as many deer in Alberta as we might see in Sasketchewan but we did expect our outfitter to do something to try and make our hunt a successful one especially considering we were very good customers...all we wanted or expected him to do was to put in the same effort that we did...after all he had $9500 of our money...and we did not get that effortfrom him ...as for what we wore walking in ...the first morning it was 7 degrees and when we dressed that morning had no idea we would have to be walking in ...the next few days we did dress down until we reached the stand ...CI as for the statement " thats hunting" I have to disagree with you my friend ...when I hunt I try to leave the woods thinking I have done everything I could that day to harvest a buck ....we did not do everything that could have been done IMHO...we were not looking for excusses but adjustments from our outfitter....One on One thank you for your kind offer ...I have moved up to Paducah Ky and have not yet found a decent place to hunt but will continue to look ...Longrifle I felt like doing just what you suggested but thought better of it ...one ironic footnote that is humorus ...as me and my wife drove home from Nashville we saw 17 deer in less then 2 hours and she laughed everytime we saw one ...and to rub sale into the wound when I got up this morning and was making coffee I looked out back and there stood 3 LOL ..go figure !

dd

Do you have to rely on your outfitter? Why couldn't you make your own adjustments if you were that displeased with the way things were going with him? Heck get down, go throgh the snow, and go stalk something.

I understand DD and sympathize with your issue. I haven't had the type experience that you had and I have been on guided hunts. I understand the disappointment you must have felt especially after having such a long time to anticipate the trip. I think I know you well enough through this forum to know that you will get over your irritation towards the outfitter. The important thing is to not let a bad week ruin your enthusiasm. Your move to Ky will just be another page in life and I bet you will find some great hunting there. Good hunters react to challenges and you sir are one of those. Keep the faith brother and glad you are back.

NY thats precisely what I did ....on Thursday night I told the outfitter that I would not be hunting the same stand again ...I had gotten down early thursday afternoon and went scouting on my own and found a concentration of fresh tracks in the snow crossing a beaver pond going into some bush...I felt if the tracks were doe tracks which is what they appeared to be that with the rut in swing I might find a buck in the area....as it turned out it must have been night traffic because after two days all I saw was one young buck 10 min before dusk on our last day .... CI thank you my friend ..yeh I will get over it but I did want to share my experience with my friends on the forum ...thought it might help a fellow hunter who may be thinking of going on a trip using a guide or outfitter ...

Bummer man...... that really bites. That's a lot of dough to shell out to have an experience like that.

This is why I would never be an outfitter. Premadonas bitching about actually being forced to hunt.

You're shooting at your decoy and you wonder why:

Maybe because you where shooting at your decoy!!! I for one would have shot that borrowed rifle before I took it into the woods so that I would know where it was shooting.

I wasn't there so I shouldn't take sides, but some of the things you say make me think that I would side with the outfitter. Listen I've known guys who went to canada in hopes of bagging a big whitey. Its pretty common knowledge that you will be expected to sit in a stand in very cold weather for 12 hours a day. You may only see a handfull of deer in a week of hunting. Everybody knows this, its the fact that one of those deer may be a huge buck that people put up with it.

Listen I'm not very politically correct, and I've been known to run off at the mouth too much. But, Quit your whinning its huntingyou sound like a real city slicker peckerwood!

Just my not so humble opinion! flame me

shato out

Sorry to hear it DD. I know you were looking forward to it. I have yet to be happy with an outfitted hunt. Guess you never get what was actually advertised.

well that sucks

see my post above.